Thank you guys, this solved the issue indeed. George
-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Ellis [mailto:jbel...@gmail.com] Sent: 28 February 2011 19:00 To: user@cassandra.apache.org Cc: George Ciubotaru Subject: Re: Column family cannot be removed drop and truncate both snapshot first, which requires forking to run ln if you don't have JNA installed. best solution: install JNA so it can do in-process link calls. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:05 AM, George Ciubotaru <george.ciubot...@skillpages.com> wrote: > Hello guys, > > > > I'm trying to remove a column family but without success. > > > > I have a simple 3 nodes Cassandra 0.7 cluster, a keyspaces with > replication factor 2 and a super column within this keyspace with around > 200,000 rows. > I'm using cassandra-cli: > > - drop column family CFName; throws the following exception: > "java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "ln": java.io.IOException: > error=12, Cannot allocate memory" > > - truncate CFName; immediately responds with "null" > > - drop keyspace KSName; also throws the above exception > > > > I can remove without any problem a newly created column family. > > > > Any idea of what might be wrong? > > > > Thank you in advance, > > George -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
